Be hole, be dust, be dream, be wind/Be night, be dark, be wish, be mind, /Now slip, now slide, now move unseen, /Above, beneath, betwixt, between.

Wherever you go, you take yourself with you.

Face your life, its pain, its pleasure, leave no path untaken.

Nearly' only counts in horseshoes and hand-grenades.

You're always you, and that don't change, and you're always changing, and there's nothing you can do about it.

If you dare nothing, then when the day is over, nothing is all you will have gained.

Really, he thought, if you couldn't trust a poet to offer sensible advice, who could you trust?

If you, as a parent, raise your children well, they won't need you anymore. If you did it properly, they go away.

If you want to call it that. But it is a very specific sort of magic. There's a magic you take from death. Something leaves the world, something else comes into it.

Bod shrugged. "So?" he said. "It's only death. I mean, all of my best friends are dead.

Leave no path untaken.

Then I walked away, and I did not look back. I had written my troubles on the sand. The tide was coming in.

Adult bats don't weigh much. They're mainly fur and appetite.

I suppose if you simplify things, it's going to make it easier to understand.

If what Jesus said was good, what can it matter whether he was God or not?

I'm going to explore the possibility that my future work could be in public service rather than corporate work.

Television is never more false than when it's openly sincere.

Don’t make excuses for why you can’t get it done. Focus on all the reasons why you must make it happen.

We have duties to others, and duties to ourselves, and we cannot shirk either.

The thing is not only to avoid error, but to attain immense masses of truth.

I guess I'm just one of these people who, when I decide I'm going to do something, I just do it.